#1984: Program #1984

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
New music featuring the bass clarinet is the subject of this New Sounds program. Hear from Australian composer Nigel Westlake, whose piece, “Onomatopoeia”, is for bass clarinet and digital delay. Also, there’s music from France by clarinetist, sax player and composer Michel Portal, with a little world music flavor, and a number of acoustic and electronic sounds mixed in. Plus, there’s a work featuring Evan Ziporyn on the bass clarinet in “What She Saw there”. Ziporyn, a composer himself and one of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, is joined by two marimba players as they imitate sounds inspired by Balinese percussion music.

PROGRAM # 1984, New Music for Bass Clarinet (First aired on 12/17/01)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Harry Sparnaay

Ladder of Escape 1

God Bless The Child [1:30]

Attacca # BABEL8945. Attacca Records, Borneokade 301,
1019 XG Amsterdam

Nigel Westlake

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia [7:00]

Tall Poppies #047. Australian import: www.tallpoppies.au.nu

Michel Portal

Turbulence

Mozambic [8:30]

Harmonia Mundi #905186
www.harmoniamundi.com.

Evan Ziporyn

Animal Act

What She Saw There [12:30]

CRI/Emergency Music #645
www.bangonacan.org*

Heikki Nikula

Hoepnadium

Timo Hietala: Strutsi (Ostrich) [12:00]

Jase #0023. May be available through the Finnish Music Information Center, www.fimic.fi.

Michael Lowenstern

Spasm

Spasm [5:00]

New World #80468. www.newworldrecords.org or 212-302-04460; fax 212-944-1922

John Potter, John Surman, et. al.

John Dowland - In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Lachrimae Verae [1:30]

ECM New Series #1697** www.ecmrecords.com *

*, ** - Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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